Sentences with descend
de·scend
D d - Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar. [VERB preposition]
- An uneasy calm descended on the area. [V + on/upon/over]
- Tourism officials say they expect about 25000 spring breakers to descend this season on Cancun?
- Follow these steps to descend from the sky and land back on your feet.
- 3,000 city officials descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for more money. [VERB + on/upon]
- Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky. [VERB]
- Nevertheless, hordes of exotic dancers descend on this city during convention season every year.
- For five days in September the world's greatest jazz musicians descend on Sedona Arizona.
- We're not going to descend to such methods. [VERB + to]
- He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos. [VERB + into]
- About 15000 people descend on Flemington racecourse for the 2010 Good Vibrations Festival, one of the summer's biggest music festivals.
- Declaring bankrupt will put a negative item on your credit score and also descend your credit card rating.
- Their relatives descended upon them last week
- He is descended from pioneers
- Maternity acupressure points help your cervix to dilate, descend your baby.
- The estate descended to the nephew
- The rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton.
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope.
- He descended from his high estate
- The beggar may descend from a princea crown descends to the heir
- They descended the river in boats; to descend a ladderBut never tears his cheek descended. Byron.
- To descend from the mountaintop.
- The path descends to the pond.
- The title descends through eldest sons.
- He is descended from Cromwell.
- This festival descends from a druidic rite.
- Thrill-seekers descended upon the scene of the crime.
- Jupiter descended to humankind.
- To descend upon enemy soldiers.
- He would never descend to baseness.
- The path descends the hill.